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The Open Secret of Ireland

CHAPTER VII
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Orange Ulster alone has never yet given to its own democracy a democratic leader.

This is indeed the cardinal misfortune, as well as the central secret, of Ulster Unionism.
The pivot on which it turns resides, not in the farms of Down or the factories of Belfast, but in the Library of the Four Courts.

Of the nineteen representatives who speak for it in Parliament no fewer than seven are King's Counsel.

In the whole list there is not one delegate of labour, nor one farmer.

A party so constituted is bound to produce prodigies of nonsense such as those associated with Sir Edward Carson.
The leaders of the orchestra openly despise the instruments on which they play.


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